James hebblbwaite and edwabd holt



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- JAMES HEBBLEVAITE AND EDYVARD HOLT, OF MANCHESTER,

' LANCASTER, ENGLAND.

COUNTY or FIGURED FABRIC OR MATERIAL FOR FLOOR-CLOTH, WATER-PROOF CLOTH, &c.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 322,601, dated July 21, 1885.

Application filed May 6, 1885. (No specimens.) Patented in England April 16, 1884, No. 6,39%).

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, J AMES HEBBLEWAITE and EDWARD HOLT, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and both residing at Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented an Improved Figured Fabric or Material for Floor-Cloth, Wa ter-Proof Cloth, &c., (for which we obtained a patent in Great Britain,No. 6,399, dated April 16, 1884,) and of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the manufacture of an improved figured fabric or material by the production, in the manner hereinafter described, of designs on textile and other fabrics or materialssuch as calicoes and other woven fabrics, paper, felt, and felted fabrics, floor-cloths, water-proof cloths, or other materials susceptible of such process.

By our improved means we are enabled to produce upon such textile or other fabrics or materials an endless Variety of designs and effectshitherto not obtainable.

In carrying out our invention we take the textile or other fabric or materiahand we coat or cover one surface (or both surfaces) of the same with a solution of indiarubber or other suitable compound or solution, of any desired color or color'sj'and this coating or covering may be applied to such an extent as to render the fabric or material water-proof or otherwise. We then, while this compound or solution is in a more or less adhesive state, overspread the surface or surfaces with farina, powdered soapstone, or other suitable powder: either white or colored, according to the effect desired. WVe then placgjhuoated or covered fabric or material 1n a machine so constructed that a roller upon which a pattern or design has been engraved or carved presses against a roller having a yielding surface, or one so constructed that depressionsin the first-named roller fit into corresponding elevations in the roller against which it presses. The coated or covered fabric or material is then passed between such rollers, and it will be found that the farina or other suitable powder has been forced from the outer surface into and becomes part of the india-rubber or other suitable coating Lfirst-named in such parts as the elevations of the said roller press against the depressions or yielding surface of the other roller Wing the other portions of the covered or coated fabric or machine untouched or unaffected and of the same shade or color as the whole surface or surfaces were before placement between the rollers, and the pattern or design will stand in relief or the reverse to the other portion of the covered or coated fabric or material, and the pattern or design will also be imparted to both sides of the coated or covered fabric or material. This part of our process may be called or termed embossing, and may be accomplished by the use of cylinders, rollers, or blocks heated or maintained at a suitable temperature, and fitted with appliances or facilities for giving varied degrees of pressure; or we may adopt other convenient methods such, for instance, as those employed in em bossing leather, paper, silk,velvet, textile and other fabrics or materialsand it will be found pliance; or we may prefer that the farina or other suitable powder may be fixed and the coated or covered fabric or material partially vulcanized or cured by placing it in contact with a roller revolving in a mixture of chloride of sulphur and bisulphide of carbon or other suitableliquor or medium.

\Ve complete the vulcanization or curing of the whole by the liquor process, such as is produced,by the action of the chloride of sulphur and bisulphide of carbon or other convenient or suitable means of vulcanization or curing.

The fabric or material may be embossed in this manner either upon a plain surface or upon one which has been previously printed upon; or they may be printed upon after embossment.

We claim means of carved or engraved rollers, cylinders, The improved figured fabric or material or blocks, substantially-as hereinbefore parproduced by first coating a woven or other ticularly described. fabric or material with a solution of india- In testimony whereof we have signed our 15 5 rubberor other suitable compound or solution names to this specification in the presence of of any desired color or colors, then while such two subscribing witnesses.

compound or solution is in a more or less ad- JAMES HEBBLEWAITE. 1 hesive state overspreading the same with fa- EDWARD HOLT. rina, powdered soapstone, or other suitable Witnesses:

IO powder, (either white or colored,) and then GEORGE DAVIES, embossing a pattern or design thereon byl JNO. HUGHES. 

